Winds carry microplastics ‘everywhere' - even on to remote mountaintops

Study finds even supposedly pristine region of the Pyrenees is polluted, but impact on human health remains unknown

Microplastic is raining down on even remote mountaintops, a new study has revealed, with winds having the capacity to carry the pollution "anywhere and everywhere".

The scientists were astounded by the quantities of microplastic falling from the sky in a supposedly pristine place such as the French stretch of the Pyrenees mountains. Researchers are now finding microplastics everywhere they look; in rivers, the deepest oceans and soils around the world.